Since 1997, the Mind
States conferences and seminars have brought together renowned scientists,
researchers, artists, and musicians from all over the world to present
the latest findings in consciousness studies, with a particular focus
on altered states of consciousness. Topics
covered have included:

Near-death and Out-of-body Experiences

Memetics and the Evolution of Thought

Traditional and Modern Shamanism

ESP and Paranormal Phenomena

Brain Machines and Biofeedback

Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Psychoactive Plants and Drugs

Visionary Art and Animation

Thought-control Technology

Cyber-punk and Futurism

Virtual Reality Systems

and more

At Mind States II, Lorenzo Hagerty brought the audience
to its feet with his novel thoughts about "Psychedelic Thinking
and the Dawn of Homo Cyber." This talk is presented below (in
MP3 format) in its entirety. As is his custom, Lorenzo first prepares
a written version of his talks, and then delivers the oral version from
notes made from the written copy. Thus the written version and the oral
version below may be slightly different.

SOUND
BITES: The beautiful jewel of psychedelic
thinking . . . the time between ages . . . the greatest mass extinction
of species since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth

How does species-extinction affect me .
. . keystone species . . . why haven't we saved the rainforest by now
. . . a lot of work goes into being a psychedelic thinker

Entheospace defined . . . it is like we are
living in Flatland . . . the reality of our existence . . . the role of
psychedelic thinkers . . . the unlimited power of consciousness . . .
a psychedelic thinker actively participates in the evolution of consciousness
itself

Why do I believe what I believe . . . most
people trust their culture over their personal experience . . . to psychedelic
thinkers, experience comes before belief

"We do know what we know" . . .
psychedelic thinkers are the most green people on Earth . . . where psychedelic
thinking fits into our culture today . . . the arrival of the Cultural
Creatives

Changing your world view . . . the dawn
of a new species . . . what if the human species becomes extinct . . .
consciousness is constantly seeking higher levels

The dawn of Homo cyber . . . a psychedelic
being that is part human and part information . . . evolution through
self-selection . . . the accelerated pace of technological change

Wireless Internet . . . universal wireless
connectivity to the Net in 25 years is a trivial problem . . . Homo cyber
as the opposite of Borg through psychedelic thinking

We are perfectly poised for a quantum evolutionary
leap . . . the mission of psychedelic thinkers . . . breaking down the
barriers of culture . . . Homo cyber is self-selecting . . . modern day
Mummers

[NOTE: Although a part of the talk discusses an
approaching war, this talk was given almost four months before September
11th 2001. The references, therefore, are not to what has transpired since
that date.] . . . A cloud on the
horizon . . . the sounds of war . . . the American Gulag . . . the insanity
of the War on Drugs . . . the war on states of mind

World War III is the War on Drugs . . .
the real objective is racist at heart . . . why are the power elite so
afraid of MDMA

Jump Time, a speeding up of the evolutionary
process . . . the coming singularity and 2012 . . . augmented human intelligence
. . . the evolution of consciousness and Teilhard's noosphere